Patrick Kerpan

Patrick Kerpan is the president and chief technology officer (CTO) for CohesiveFT, provider of onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures. CFT's Elastic Server platform is a web-based factory for creating, deploying, and managing custom multi-sourced servers comprised of horizontal, open source and third-party software components. Additionally the VPN-Cubed packaged service gives customers control of networking in the clouds, across clouds, and between their private data center and the clouds. In this role, Kerpan is responsible for directing product and technology strategy.

Kerpan brings more than 20 years of software development experience to the role of CTO and was one of CohesiveFT's founders in 2006. Previously he was the CTO of Borland Software Corp which he joined in 2000 through the acquisition of Bedouin, Inc., a company that he founded. Kerpan was also the vice president and general manager of the Developer Services Platform group at Borland, where he was instrumental in leading the Borland acquisition of StarBase in 2003.

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How should enterprises or Cloud Providers react to the VMware "August 12th
surprise"? To those who may not have heard - the latest versions of VMware's
ESX hypervisor started shutting down as the hypervisor clock hit the date of
August 12th. This was due to what amounts to a hardcoded shutdown being left
in the server from its evaluation days.
Clearly if you are an enterprise dutifully "up to patch" this would have put
a big hurt on your operation, IF virtualization was more ubiquitous in the
production data center. The fact is enterprise data centers don't have a lot
of mission critical virtual machines in production - yet!
I am not kicking VMware - these things happen. But what if that had been a
large-scale Cloud Provider? By definition, virtualization is 100% ubiquitous
in virtualization-based clouds.
We know it is a heterogeneous world, and cu... (more)

Cloud computing is so alluring. The public cloud economizes infrastructure
resources and creates a scalable, on-demand source for compute capacity.
Additionally, the cloud can be a strategic asset for enterprises that know
how to migrate, integrate and govern deployments securely.
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak recently said, "A lot of people feel 'Oh,
everything is really on my computer,' but I say the more we transfer
everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we're going to have control
over it."
In fact, over 70% of IT professionals worry about security according to a... (more)